By Patric Hedlund, Marcy Axness and Gary Meyer, TME

After many delays, a California Superior Court judge in Santa Barbara is scheduled to hand down a sentence Thursday, April 25 to Plains All American Pipeline, which was convicted by a jury in September on nine criminal counts in the worst crude oil spill on California’s coastline since the 1960s.

Felony failure to properly maintain its dangerous, highly-pressurized pipeline led to the discharge of over 140,000 gallons of…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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The sign on the I-5 Grapevine pumping plant.

The Plains West Coast Pipeline facility in Lebec.

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